Between Dome of the Rock and a Hard Place
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I have been reading a lot of commentary about Abbas’ announcement to leave Palestinian politics, about Clinton’s shameful pandering to Netanyahu, about Obama’s fading dreams for Middle East peace, about the dim prospects for any progress whatsoever in Israel/Palestine at the current time.
But you don’t need to read all those things. You [...]
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New reports suggest that Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has reached an agreement with the Obama administration regarding a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state along the green line, i.e. along the ‘67 borders, i.e. along borders that would include the half million settlers currently living in the West Bank.
The reports indicated that [...]
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The war of 1948 and the associated ethnic cleansing, which the Israelis recognize as the War of Independence and the Palestinians consider the Nakba (catastrophe), is an absolutely fundamental topic worth a lot of attention. I plan to tackle this complex issue in many stages. But the Borderline Crimes blog has an excellent [...]
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This blog should have started on December 28th, 2008, the day the revoltingly named Operation Cast Lead began.
I had observed with a growing sense of horror the drumbeat for war in Israeli society. It reminded me of neoconservative hysteria in the run-up to America’s most recent war on Iraq. I had read with alarm the [...]
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